Book part: Denials of Service
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Abstract
This article addresses denial-of-service attacks as
one key entry point to understanding contemporary
issues in network politics. By way of underlining the
spiraling feature of the Internet economy as based
on security and attack services, it leads into discussing
the December 2014 DoS attack against Sony
and Xbox gaming networks which were resolved
by Kimdotcom offering the hackers vouchers for
his file-sharing service, Mega. The article considers
the implications of this and other examples in the
context of how service has also come to denote a
relationship to Internet infrastructure: Servers and
the speed of Internet connections that can be slowed
down or flooded by way of denial-of-service attacks.
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